Posts Tagged ‘Babylonian Exile’

Note: We can pray with the Sunday readings even if Sunday liturgies have been suspended due to the coronavirus.
Bill Ayres continues to offer his reflections to help our prayer.
A reading from the the Prophet Ezekiel
(Chapter 37:12-14)
The Babylonian Exile (597 BC to 538 BC) was a terrible period in the history ...Read More

A reading from the Book of Genesis
(Chapter 2:7-9, 3:1-7)
No one knows exactly when the Book of Genesis was written, but biblical scholars calculate that it was sometime after the Jewish people came back from the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century B.C. and people questioned why they were away so ...Read More

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
(Chapter 58:7-10)
“Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back against your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, ...Read More

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
(Chapter 60:1-6)
Light and darkness are two of the great biblical images. In this reading, Isaiah is telling the people of Israel that “your light has come.” Although “darkness covers the earth,” God will bring light to the whole world through Israel.
The word ...Read More

A reading from the book of Amos
(Chapter 6:1a, 4-7)
Amos is condemning the rich and powerful in the Northern Kingdom of Israel just before they are invaded by the Babylonians and sent into exile, roughly 800 years before the birth of Jesus. Amos blames the elite for their uncaring and unjust ...Read More

A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah
(Chapter 66:18-21)
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah was not written by one person all at once. There are three main sections, and today’s reading comes from the last chapter of the third section, written as the Jewish people were finally returning from ...Read More

A reading from Book of the Prophet Isaiah
(Chapter 19:16b, 19-21)
This book has three sections, and this is the last. It refers to the Babylonian Exile from 597 B.C to 539 B.C. Jerusalem was in ruins as the exiles returned. Imagine how they felt coming back to their holy city, ...Read More

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
(Chapter 53:10-11)
“Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days: through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt they shall bear.” The suffering servant here is not any one person but rather all of ...Read More

The Book of Deuteronomy
(Chapter 4:32-34,39-40)
Deuteronomy is the fifth and last book of the Torah, written around the time of the Babylonian Exile (600 BC). It begins with the story of the Hebrew people wandering in the desert for 40 years, and this chapter focuses on the reality and power of ...Read More